As always, Cooper presents a blend of glorious colour and an imaginative text with lots of long, interesting words and repetition . . . Highly recommended (The School Librarian 20070501) Lose yourself in the illustration, laugh out loud at the antics of the friends, learn some important lessons and create a beautifully pink soup, but most of all enjoy this wonderful story book ...(展开全部)

T. A. Heppenheimer's acclaimed chronicle of rockets, politics, and the pioneers who dared to reach beyond humanity's limits. "The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and best written history of space flight there is."-The Times (London) "A lively account of the development of space activities in the U.S. and the Soviet Union . . . as good a one-volume overview of space as exists....(展开全部)

T. A. Heppenheimer's acclaimed chronicle of rockets, politics, and the pioneers who dared to reach beyond humanity's limits. "The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and best written history of space flight there is."-The Times (London) "A lively account of the development of space activities in the U.S. and the Soviet Union . . . as good a one-volume overview of space as exists....(展开全部)

The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: tho

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly sets his novels of suspense against a world divided by race, politics, money, and the media. Here he thrusts Detective Harry Bosch on a harrowing journey into a high-profile murder case--and darkness... An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But ...(展开全部)

The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: tho

Animals eat animals in this informative exposé of three animal food chains Three of the longest food chains of the animal kingdom are depicted in three accordion-foldout volumes, complete with stunning dimensional art and sparse read-aloud text. Young children will experience the factual, specific, and possibly surprising information via bright visuals, pleasingly repetitive te...(展开全部)

Animals eat animals in this informative exposé of three animal food chains Three of the longest food chains of the animal kingdom are depicted in three accordion-foldout volumes, complete with stunning dimensional art and sparse read-aloud text. Young children will experience the factual, specific, and possibly surprising information via bright visuals, pleasingly repetitive te...(展开全部)

爱丽丝·普罗文森（1918年8月—）和马丁·普罗文森（1916年7月10日—1987年3月27日）是美国著名童书作家兼插画家的“双子组合”。这对夫妻各自的早年经历有惊人的相似之处：都出生于芝加哥的伊利诺斯，12岁时都搬到加利福尼亚，后来都获得芝加哥艺术学院的奖学金，又都进入加利福尼亚大学读书，尽管是在不同的校区。大学毕业后，爱丽丝进入以创作《啄木鸟伍迪》闻名的沃特·蓝兹工作室工作，马丁则去了这家工作室的竞争对手沃特·迪士尼工作室，在那里，他与人合作了《小象丹波》、《幻想曲》和《木偶奇遇记》。 1943年，马丁为创作有关美国军事训练的电影，被派到沃特·蓝兹工作室工作，因此与爱丽丝结识，两人于1944年在华盛顿喜结连理并定居。在那里，他们合作了与二战相关的作品。二战结束后，他们搬到纽约，朋友帮他们找到了一份工作：为《炉边民歌》绘插图。1952年，马丁设计...(展开全部)